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25.01.2022 From Celeste Rodriguez Louro: ICAME is on its 41 iteration this year. When COVID lockdown came into effect, many thought that would be the end of ICAME41. But Beatrix Busse and her TEAM had other ideas. They redesigned the conference entirely: live papers became video presentations, plenaries were rejigged for Zoom, and new panels were scheduled for live-streaming and sharing online. And today (Thursday 21 May 2020) I will have the pleasure of being a panellist in the Tipp...ing Point discussion Beatrix and team have organised to discuss impact and engagement. I will talk about how reaching out to teachers in the context of our original workshop, Understanding Language, has allowed us to bring Linguistics to the service of society. I will also touch on other issues I am passionate about including two-way cross-cultural research, Indigenous leadership, teamwork and sustainable academic practice. The panel will take place 5-6pm Central European Time which makes it 11-12am Perth time. It will be recorded and shared on the ICAME41 website afterwards. https://icame41.as.uni-heidelberg.de/panel-discussion/

25.01.2022 Third meeting of UWA Linguistics Reading Group, hosted by PhD candidate Connor Brown (top left). Today we read Two types of functional transfer in language contact by Jeff Siegel. Looking forward to the next one!

25.01.2022 Abralin Ao Vivo, a global meeting of linguists online, is featuring two UWA linguists this week. Wednesday 8 July 2020 7AM Perth time Language Variation and Change, Australia: Ao Vivo!... Organised by Celeste Rodriguez Louro (UWA). With Catherine Travis (ANU), James Walker (La Trobe), Gerry Docherty (Griffith), John Mansfield (Melbourne) and Ksenia Gnesheva (ANU) moderating the chat. Cant watch it live? Not to worry, it will be recorded for posterity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojacfW-ZyWw Friday 10 July 2020 7AM Perth time Australias First Nations Languages Lessons for Linguistics. Organised by Ilana Mushin (Queensland). With Clint Bracknell (Edith Cowan), Rob Mailhammer (Western Sydney), Marija Tabain (La Trobe), Rachel Nordlinger (Melbourne), Alice Gaby (Monash) and Ilana Mushin (Queensland). Moderator: Maïa Ponsonnet (UWA). This event will also be recorded and available on YouTube after the event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFvFHWmWQBc See you then!

25.01.2022 Dr Celeste Rodriguez Louro represented UWA Linguistics at Churchlands Senior High School this morning. She and colleagues across FABLE had a chance to chat to Year 10 and Year 11 students about their study pathways after graduation. Take home message? Whatever you do, study linguistics. ;)

24.01.2022 M O R E R E M O T E L I N G U I S T I C S S E M I N A R S! Next Friday 8th May, we are welcoming University of Queensland's Ilana Mushin (who is also the President of the Australian Linguistic Society). She will be presenting her work on evidentiality in the world's languages. We will meet on Zoom, with Q&A and time for social interaction after.... Friday 8 May, 12.30pm-2pm (Perth time) Zoom link: https://uwa.zoom.us/j/96327923565 If you're not UWA-affiliated, you will need a password to be able to join us on Zoom. Please email Troy Reynolds on [email protected] to obtain one. Hope to see you there! TITLE: Whither Evidentiality? PRESENTER: Ilana Mushin (Queensland) WHEN: Friday 8 May 12:30-2:00 ABSTRACT In this talk I consider how the recent epistemic turn in Conversation Analysis (e.g. Heritage 2012) is deepening our understanding of the ways in which language is utilised as a resource for knowledge management, and the utility of knowledge management for achieving broader social goals. This in turn is leading us to consider lexicalised and grammaticalised expressions of knowledge more robustly in terms of their social embeddedness. Drawing on a range of data from different languages, I show how some of the classic issues in the study the linguistic coding of epistemology (Chafe & Nichols 1986), such as the typology of evidential categories, and the relationships between evidentiality and epistemic modality may be recast through the lens of knowledge management as a key driver of social interaction. REFERENCES Chafe, Wallace & Johanna Nichols (eds) 1986. Evidentiality: The linguistic coding of epistemology. New York: Academic Press Heritage, John 2012. The epistemic engine: Action formation, sequence organisation and territories of knowledge. Research on Language and Social Interaction 45: 30-52. SHORT BIO Associate Professor Ilana Mushin is a Reader in Linguistics at the University of Queensland. She has longstanding research interests in relationships between language, culture, cognition and social interaction. She has been researching the pragmatics of evidential strategies since the 1990s and is the author of Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance, published by John Benjamins in 2001. Her recent research includes knowledge management in conversation and in primary school classroom interaction, and descriptive and interactional linguistic analysis of Australian First Nations languages, especially Garrwa.

24.01.2022 Connor Brown recently returned from a 2 months+ field trip in Kununurra. On Friday he will be presenting on his data collection and preliminary analysis of the East Kimberley Kriol variety! As is usual now, we will be meeting physically in room 2.63 (Social Sciences), and the meeting will be Zoomed at the same time for those who wish to attend remotely. Please click this URL to start or join: ... https://uwa.zoom.us/j/88656206786 Password: 513698 This will be our last seminar for this year, however on 14 & 15 December we will also be organizing an ALS attandance node (more on this soon). Connor Brown Reflections from the field: Semantic theory and practice in an understudied Kimberley creole variety Fri 20 November 12:30pm-2pm, Zoom + F2F Presentation Abstract In this seminar I will discuss practical aspects of semantic fieldwork in an understudied language variety and supplement this discussion with some brief analysis. I draw on the recent experience of working on an undocumented Kriol variety spoken in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. First, I provide a brief characterization of this language variety, along with its complex linguistic ecology. I will then discuss the importance of broad data collection methods as a precursor to targeted elicitation and the application of semantic field methods. I also reflect on the complexities of cultural context, and how the successes or shortcomings of particular data collection methods relate to the expectations and preferences of participants. I will then follow this discussion with a preliminary analysis which investigates temporally unmarked clauses in East Kimberley Kriol. I discuss the results in light of semantic theory and consider how they pattern with similar phenomena cross-linguistically. Short bio Connor Brown is a PhD candidate in the UWA Linguistics Discipline. His thesis focuses on the description and analysis of temporal semantics in Northern Australian Kriol, with a focus on East Kimberley varieties. He is interested in the application of formal semantic methods to the semantics of understudied languages and what the semantics and pragmatics of creole languages can tell us about universal linguistic tendencies in these domains.

22.01.2022 IMPORTANT: NO LINGUISTICS SEMINAR THIS FRIDAY For practical reasons, we have had to postpone Connor Brown's seminar, initially announced for this Friday 12 June. Connor will present his work later in the year (Semester 2 seminar dates will soon be announced). The next Zoom seminar is planned for 19 June 2020, and it is hosted by Melbourne University. Celeste Rodriguez Louro and Glenys Collard...Continue reading

22.01.2022 Linguistics in the Pub (at home) May 2020: Fieldwork at a distance Discussion led by: Ruth Singer (University of Melbourne) Participate via Zoom or Youtube live at:... 10am Thursday May 21st Australian Eastern Standard Time AEST UTC+10 5pm Wednesday May 20th Pacific Daylight Time PDT UTC-7 (8pm EDT) We've all thrown our 2020 fieldwork plans in the bin. Now we find ourselves in a strange new world of online work, and likely no travel, or greatly reduced travel, for the the foreseeable future. This month we look at ways we can continue our research collaborations with communities. What kinds of research projects are possible in this radically altered landscape? And how can we still support the languages and communities that we work with? This LIP has a different format to usual. We will start with a panel discussion (around 45 minutes) and then we will discuss the issues raised in small groups for about 30 minutes. The panel discussion will be streamed live to YouTube and will be available to view later. The panel brings together six linguists who have already been doing 'fieldwork at a distance' for some time: Claire Bowern, Emiliana Cruz, Tom Ennever, Bryn Hauk, Stephen Morey, Anthony Woodbury. The discussion will be facilitated by Ruth Singer. This LIP is at a new time, so we can include linguists based in the Americas as well as Australia. To participate via Zoom, register with EventBrite to receive the Zoom meeting link You can also watch the panel discussion via Youtube live on the Linguistics in the Pub channel https://www.livinglanguages.org.au//lip-fieldwork-at-a-dis

22.01.2022 Ready for our next Linguistics seminar? University of New England's Sally Dixon will present on the implicit ideologies embedded in the process of learning (or teaching) Linguistics. The F2F meeting will take place at UWA's Social Science building, as with other seminars, but note we will be in a different room: room 1.29, which is on the first floor (there will be signage from our usual room). Sally will present via Zoom, and the audience can join from Zoom as well: ... https://uwa.zoom.us/j/97990011043 Password: 997616 More details below. Sally Dixon University of New England Embedding variationist perspectives in undergraduate linguistics teaching Friday 21 August 12:30pm-2pm via Zoom + cluster F2F in room 1.29, UWA Social Sciences 1st Floor Abstract When I began my PhD research on complex language repertoires, I found my linguistic toolkit was pretty empty of the kinds of analytic approaches that would allow me to do justice to the linguistic dexterity of my participants. This is partly down to the luck of the draw; I had studied my undergraduate linguistics degree at time prior to the upsurge in interest in variationist sociolinguistics in Australia and so no such courses were on offer at my alma mater. But as I embarked on the process of upskilling and methodological innovation that my PhD demanded of me, I also felt at times I was unlearning some of the ways of thinking about language that had been engrained during my bachelor studies. In this talk, I reflect on the concept of linguistic variation (and the linguistic variable) and explore how this is navigated in a typical undergraduate linguistics program. In particular, I focus on opportunities for embedding the concept of variable grammar early and often as a way to undermine linguistic prejudice and equip the linguists of the future to grapple with some of the big divisions in our field, such as between probabilistic, usage-based accounts and formal theories of language. Short bio My research and applied work is focused at the intersection of descriptive linguistics, sociolinguistics and education. I have always been interested in linguistic outcomes of contact, such as individual multilingualism, language practises in border regions, and contact varieties. I joined the Aboriginal Child Language Acquisition project in 2011, undertaking a study of Alyawarr childrens use of two closely-related language varieties in central Australia. Prior to this, I worked for several years at Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre as a field linguist and I also spent a year in the Philippines working for a local Indigenous peoples education NGO, where I developed multilingual curricula and teaching materials. Before coming to UNE in 2019, I lived in Germany for 3.5 years, teaching linguistics in the English Studies departments of the Friedrich Schiller University (Jena) and Erfurt University (Erfurt).

21.01.2022 In early May this year, Prof. Noam Chomsky said, a mere 6 minutes into his Abralin Ao Vivo lecture, that 'the survival of humanity is at risk if we pursue our present course'. In addition to our leaders making the right decisions, how can we as academics ensure that our practice is as sustainable as possible? Join an exciting panel of linguists and historians as they discuss 'Sustainable Academia'. Dr Celeste Rodriguez Louro (UWA), Dr Carla Pascoe Leahy (Melbourne), Dr Lauren Gawne (La Trobe), Dr Panos Pappas (Simon Fraser) and Prof. Toby Green (King's College London). The event begins at 7AM Perth time tomorrow Tuesday 14 July 2020. It will broadcast live and will also be recorded for posterity. Come join us! You can leave questions and comments on the chat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUOReSthEDI

20.01.2022 From Because Language, by UWAs Daniel Midgley: Everyone has had fun roasting Elon Musk for one of the dumber takes on language this year. Even so, what would communication be like with a brain interface? What do we use language for, besides just the bare communication of information? And then: NORMALCY v. NORMALITY? Did you go to three "home opens", or three "homes open"? And why do some words mean their opposites?... Daniel is blowing your mind for the #Speakeasy on ABC Perth with Nadia Mitsopoulos & Russell Woolf. Thx to producers Damian Smith, Hilary Gamble, and Meggie Morris for reading my mind and doing what they do. https://www.abc.net.au//progr/breakfast/speakeasy/12248098

20.01.2022 And we're back! The first linguistics seminar this semester will take place at 12.30pm on Friday 31 July 2020. We will use a hybrid mode allowing Zoom and F2F interaction. What will it be for you? Joe Blythe Macquarie University...Continue reading

20.01.2022 Here are Ten Ways Aboriginal Australians have made English their own. Celeste Rodriguez Louro and Glenys Collard in The Conversation! https://theconversation.com/10-ways-aboriginal-australians-

19.01.2022 Can linguistics inform the production of health media? Don't believe it? Read on... From Dr Celeste Rodriguez Louro, 10/11/2020 Early this year Glenys Collard and I were approached to help design a video for the Heart Foundation. Quick as a flash, Glenys scripted the content. We thought we were ready to go but at some point her script, which was well received at the start, was replaced by a ‘simple English’ alternative. A meeting ensued where Glenys and I explained how import...ant it would be for community to hear this heart check message in ABORIGINAL ENGLISH. For me, years of sociolinguistic training crystallised into fascinating discussions about standard language ideologies, language and identity/belonging, the place of Aboriginal English in the linguistic ecology of Australia. The project managers came onboard! Today, we present a heart health check video for community fully scripted by Nyungar language scholar Glenys Collard and brought to life by Kelton Pell, a Nyungar actor who was in charge of the voice-over. See it for yourself and share far and wide! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op1dNfMiz9s&feature=youtu.be

19.01.2022 This coming Friday we are welcoming Niru Perera from Curtin University, who will be presenting in the flesh about language use in emergency ambulance calls. See abstract below. This seminar will be in hybrid mode again, albeit with a different set up since the speaker will be with us in person. It will take place in the usual room, 2.63 in Social Sciences at UWA. You are welcome to stay around for a cuppa and chat with us at the end. If you cannot make it in person you can j...oin the meeting on Zoom: https://uwa.zoom.us/j/99195050301 Password: 411760 Niru Perera Curtin University Applying Linguistics to Emergency Medicine: Communication in 000 Ambulance Calls Friday 4 September 12:30pm-2pm, Social Sciences 2.63 Abstract Emergency call centres represent a high-stress institutional setting where heavy restrictions are placed on phone interactions (Drew & Heritage, 1992) by way of a script to determine the nature of the emergency and the priority it should be given by the ambulance service. While using a script can ensure consistent and structured responses to emergencies, issues can arise from strict adherence to the script. Linguistic analysis plays a critical role in identifying the kinds of communication hurdles that lead to the delayed treatment of an urgent condition. As an example of how linguistics is applied to the emergency medicine context I will present findings from a study of calls when patients have a cardiac arrest, seen as one of the most time-critical emergencies. If a layperson can use a defibrillator on a patient, before the paramedics arrive, then this has the potential to save their life. Using Conversation Analysis I will argue, however, that problems both within and beyond the call script mean that this potential is diminished. Short bio Niru Perera is a sociolinguist and a research fellow at PRECRU, the Prehospital Resuscitation and Emergency Care Research Unit, at Curtin University an interdisciplinary research team which collaborates with St John Ambulance WA to help improve outcomes for emergency patients. Nirus other research interest is in migrant heritage language use and its intersection with identity, culture and religion. She has recently co-edited a collection on the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in Australia and published in the International Journal of Multilingualism.

19.01.2022 Don't forget Joe Blythe's presentation this Friday! 12.30pm Perth time, on Zoom or in the flesh (Room 2.63 Social Sciences Bld). Check out the info. below. Looking forward to seeing you all. https://uwa.zoom.us/j/96183642959 Password: 013997...Continue reading

18.01.2022 How can we make academia more sustainable? Check out this fascinating panel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUOReSthEDI moderated by Celeste Rodriguez Louro (UWA) with contributions from linguists and historians keen to do academic work that won't exploit the planet, or each other.

18.01.2022 Do you work with Indigenous people? Here are some new guidelines worth checking out. Listen, build relationships, don't rush the process, pay people for their work, co-author with those whose intellectual input you're basing your work on. https://www.csiro.au//Sustainable-In/Our-Knowledge-Our-Way

18.01.2022 WANTED. Cultural Data officer. Looking for someone keen to work for a remote indigenous community development organisation, whos passionate about innovating (/decolonising) collections-management & archiving approaches in a pretty unique cross-cultural space. https://www.seek.com.au/job/41334661 Applications close this Sunday June 7th .

17.01.2022 Congratulations to A/Prof. Marie-Eve Ritz and to Dr Luisa Miceli on being selected by their students for UWA Student Guild Students' Choice Awards. Marie-Eve has been nominated for her teaching in LING1001 Language and Communication; Luisa for her teaching in LING3003 Historical Linguistics: Language Change and Language History. We are so pleased to have such great teachers in our Linguistics program!

17.01.2022 PhD opportunity on Kune (Arnhem Land) at UWA (from Maïa Ponsonnet) PhD opportunity: Call for expressions of interest ... PhD project on linguistic descriptions of space in Kune (Arnhem Land) as part of ARC Project Landscape, language and culture in Indigenous Australia The Australian Research Council Discovery Project Landscape, language and culture in Indigenous Australia aims to determine how culture and social diversity interact with landscape in representing physical space in the minds and grammars of speakers of Australian Indigenous languages. The project will conduct the first Australia-wide large-scale investigation of diversity in spatial descriptions and behaviours among individuals within communities, with findings expected to inform crucial debates on the formative role of landscape in language and human spatial cognition. The team will develop sets of tools to collect experimental and natural data in six Australian Indigenous languages spoken in a range of geographical environments. The project team is currently looking for a PhD student to work on the Kune variety of Bininj Kunwok (Gunwinyguan, Arnhem Land). During your PhD you will be collecting and analyzing first-hand data for the above project on Kune, under the supervision of Dr Maïa Ponsonnet, at the University of Western Australia. Remote enrolment and supervision arrangements can be arranged if the present logistical complications surrounding travel continue to apply into the future. For more information, go to: https://drive.google.com//14UX6HhAaCg3LsmrFfSDCsvqUM/view To express interest, please contact [email protected] before 30 September 2020.

17.01.2022 First ever remote Linguistics seminar for UWA Linguistics (and perhaps the first remote Lx seminar Australia?!) a huge success. Thank you, John Mansfield (Melbourne), for a most interesting and exciting presentation, and to the 42 attendees from several states across Oz. So many familiar faces. Cant wait for more to come! #sustainableacademia

17.01.2022 How can we make academia a more climate-aware, ecologically and socially ethical place? Join us on a special panel on Abralin Ao Vivo (an online series of lectures and panels; see link below). Panellists include Carla Pascoe (Historian, University of Melbourne), Lauren Gawne (Linguist, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia), Toby Green (Historian, King's College London, England), Panos Pappas (Linguist, Simon Fraser University, Canada) and Celeste Rodriguez Louro (Linguist, The University of Western Australia). We hope to see you there! https://youtube.com/watch?v=AUOReSthEDI

14.01.2022 The 2020 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society will be online this year, organised by Dr Celeste Rodriguez Louro and colleagues in Sydney and Brisbane. Check out the newly accepted workshops. Abstracts are due by 30 September 2020 and registration for those wishing to attend as delegates (without needing to present a paper) will open soon. Stay tuned! https://als.asn.au/Conference/Workshops2020

13.01.2022 It is now scientifically established that the current state of the earth, and its evolution, represent a threat to human lives, and ultimately to the human race. Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Maïa Ponsonnet, Luisa Miceli, and Marie-Eve Ritz have drafted a Sustainable Linguistics proposal. How might academics go about reducing emissions while still growing our discipline? How can we reconcile the academys drive for internationalisation, growth, mobility and globalisation with the steps needed to reduce our carbon footprint? Might changes to our academic practice translate to more sustainable lives for ourselves and our communities? #sustainableacademia #thetimeisnow

13.01.2022 Understanding Language will be taking place 28 November 2020. Join us for a unique opportunity to discuss your multilingual and multicultural classroom and all your student linguistic needs! We offered this professional development last year and it was a big success. Here are some gems from our attendees: THANK YOU FOR YOUR PERSONAL INSIGHTS. I LEARNED A LOT. WOULD LOVE TO ATTEND A FOLLOW UP SESSION!... BRILLIANT DAY ALL AROUND. PLEASE PROVIDE MORE EAL/D PDs OF THIS CALIBRE TO EXTEND OUR KNOWLEDGE. THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST EAL/D PDs I'VE ATTENDED. Registration closes soon. Don't miss out! https://www.uwa.edu.au/study/events/understanding-language

12.01.2022 As we prepare for our own Abralin Ao Vivo events this week (see previous posts), so much is happening! Check out this really interesting talk about 'Emoji as Digital Gesture: Why Internet Linguistics Matters'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryyvyH1wYBM Here's a summary:... In the space of a decade emoji have gone from being unavailable outside of Japan to active use by over 90% of the worlds online population. Their sudden rise in use is often attributed to the way they allow users to convey in writing what is usually done with tone of voice and body language in face-to-face interaction, but the specific implementation of this general claim has been under-explored. In this talk we look at the functional parallels between emoji and co-speech gestures. In addition to the obvious similarities between certain emoji and certain gestures (e.g., winking, thumbs up), gestures are commonly grouped into subcategories according to how codified their meaning is and how much they are dependent on surrounding speech. We look at how emoji fill the same set of functions, and argue that emoji give writing the same multimodality as speech and sign. We also bring in the bigger picture of why linguists should care about informal writing, and why the internet is an important place to study it.

12.01.2022 Have you ever wondered how emoji function linguistically? Join Lauren Gawne (La Trobe University, Melbourne) next Thursday May 30th at 1pm (Melbourne time) to find out! (Spoiler alert: emoji are a lot like gesture). This will be an online Linguistics seminar, of course, and registration is through the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/emoji-as-digital-gestures-l

11.01.2022 Glenys Collard and Celeste Rodriguez Louro were on ABC Mornings with Kia Handley today chatting about #AboriginalEnglish. Hear them yarn at 1:58:57, just after Stevie Wonder's 'Superstition'. https://www.abc.net.au//programs/mornings/mornings/12371710

11.01.2022 What are you doing on Friday 19 June 2020? Join Celeste Rodriguez Louro and Glenys Collard as they present their latest paper titled Working together: Sociolinguistic research in urban Aboriginal Australia as part of The University of Melbournes Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (LAL) ZOOM seminar series. Details through the link below. https://arts.unimelb.edu.au//news/past-events/lal-seminar2... NB: Start time is 3.15pm Melbourne time, 1.15pm Perth time. Looking forward to seeing you there!

07.01.2022 What are you doing this Friday April 24th at 12.30pm? Come join us for our first remote UWA Linguistics seminar! John Mansfield University of Melbourne and Charles Darwin University ... Aboriginal language use in Darwin Friday 24 April, 12.30-2pm (Perth time) Please use this Zoom link: https://uwa.zoom.us/j/96127788636 If you're not UWA-affiliated, please reach out to Troy Reynolds to obtain a password for this meeting. If you are not a UWA student or staff member YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO JOIN UNLESS YOU HAVE A PASSWORD FOR THIS MEETING. Troy is contactable on [email protected] NOTE: This seminar will be recorded. Abstract Research on Aboriginal languages is usually conducted in remote communities. But with increasing mobility of speakers, Aboriginal language can now be heard far beyond their homelands, with social orbits taking in urban centres such as Darwin and Alice Springs. As the speakers of these languages continue to seek out new social horizons, urban language ecologies can be expected to play a key role in the future of Aboriginal languages. I here present initial findings from a project on Aboriginal language use in Darwin. The latest census reports 1101 speakers of Aboriginal languages in Darwin (ABS 2016), though this may undercount in various ways. In my 2018-2019 fieldwork the languages I encountered most were Anindilyakwa, Burarra, Kriol, Murrinhpatha, Tiwi and Yolngu varieties, spoken by both permanent residents and visitors from remote communities. Some speakers move back and forth regularly between homelands and Darwin. There is some degree of social differentiation between those who live in mainstream housing, those who live in Aboriginal-only town camps, and those who sleep in public parks and bushland, i.e. long-grassers. Another particularly intensive site of Aboriginal language use is Darwin prison, where the majority of some 1000 prisoners speak one or more Aboriginal language. Recently there has been a push to provide more language-appropriate rehabilitation activities for these prisoners. Short bio John Mansfield is a lecturer in linguistics at the University of Melbourne, and an Honorary Fellow of the Northern Institute at Charles Darwin University. He is currently working on an ARC-funded project, Remotely urban: Aboriginal language use in Darwin.

07.01.2022 What are you doing on Saturday 28/11/20? We are offering a unique professional development opportunity for teachers called Understanding Language. Hear Dr Celeste Rodriguez Louro speak about this awesome PD through the link below. https://www.dropbox.com//PD_Promotion%20video_6%20NOV%2020 Registration includes vegan lunch, certificate of attendance and Understanding Language kit. Join us here: https://www.uwa.edu.au/study/events/understanding-language

06.01.2022 Celeste Rodriguez Louro and Glenys Collard are hard at work in the context of Celeste's Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA Fellowship. Check out the project's brand new website for more details. Details of upcoming events and publications will be updated on the website soon. For now, go to: https://www.uwa.edu.au//aboriginal-english-in-the-global-c

06.01.2022 Reminder: Linguistics seminar hosted by Melbourne University School of Languages and Linguistics tomorrow Friday 19 June 2020 at 1.15pm Perth time. Join Celeste Rodriguez Louro and Glenys Collard as they present their latest paper titled Working together: Sociolinguistic research in urban Aboriginal Australia as part of The University of Melbournes Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (LAL) ZOOM seminar series. Details through the link below. https://arts.unimelb.edu.au//n...ews/past-events/lal-seminar2 NB: Start time is 3.15pm Melbourne time, 1.15pm Perth time. Looking forward to seeing you there!

05.01.2022 Interested in Australia's linguistic landscape? Check out this fascinating panel moderated by Ilana Mushin (Queensland) and hosted by Abralin Ao Vivo: Linguists online. So much work yet to be done in making sure that linguistic prejudice doesn't continue to damage people's opportunities for excellence and growth. A change of mindset really needed and linguists can help now more than ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ooXodfwZyQ

05.01.2022 Second Call for Papers: NWAV Asia-Pacific 6, 17-20 February, 2021, National University of Singapore Submission deadline: 15 Sept, 2020 The 6th meeting of the New Ways of Analyzing Variation - Asia Pacific conference invites submissions of abstracts for papers to be delivered virtually in an online conference to be held on 17-20 February, 2021.... NWAV-AP is a unique venue for sharing research on language variation and change in an Asia-Pacific context. The theme of this years conference is Asia on the move; we welcome papers that speak to this theme, including studies of language variation and change in relation to transnational migration, urbanization and development, language contact, and language revitalization. As in previous years, NWAV-AP particularly aims to highlight new variationist research on the indigenous languages and contact varieties of the region. Conference website: https://blog.nus.edu.sg/nwavap6/ Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nwavap6 Abstracts should be submitted by 15 September 2020, 11:59 PM UTC-12 time (AoE). Please submit files as anonymous pdfs, with a maximum of 350 words, excluding title and references. Authors may submit multiple abstracts; authors with papers already accepted during the first round of submissions are invited to submit additional work. All presentations will consist of 20-minute pre-recorded talks, followed by a 10-minute live Q&A session. Timing accommodations will be made, where possible, for authors presenting remotely from other regions of the world. Please note that this is a call for additional papers following the rescheduling of the conference to 2021 due to Covid-19; authors with presentations already accepted to the conference do not need to resubmit their abstracts. For more information, please visit our website at https://blog.nus.edu.sg/nwavap6/, or contact the organizing committee at [email protected]. Do also follow us on Twitter @nwavap6 for news and updates.

04.01.2022 Our next remote linguistics seminar will be held next Friday 22 May at 1.30pm (yes, new time!). Brandon Wiltshire Charles Darwin University... Understanding How Indigenous Language Programs Work Friday 22 May 1:30-3:00 Via Zoom https://uwa.zoom.us/j/95596804710 If you're not UWA-affiliated, you will need a password to access this meeting. Please email Troy Reynolds on [email protected] to secure one. Abstract As Indigenous language loss accelerates, language revitalisation has taken shape in different forms across the globe, engaging people in the task of supporting endangered languages with various language programs. Programs address diverse needs of local speech communities through methods such as immersion, bilingual education, adult language learning, and language nests. While many types of revitalisation programs exist, their success is varied, often undocumented, and hard to measure. This research seeks to establish theories on which methods of revitalisation are effective and how contextual factors of program implementation affect the outcomes. I present initial findings as well as plans for research going forward. I glean theories through a combination of interviews with stakeholders, literature review, and personal experience. I will also seek to establish a co-designed evaluation methodology based on realist evaluation, a theory-driven approach that focuses on not only what is happening in a language program, but more important why, how, for whom, and in which circumstances. Furthermore, in many speech communities, 'grassroots' language revitalisation is taking place (cf Warlpiri Light and Gurindji Kriol). These newer varieties are argued to have the same connection to identity as traditional languages. I will explore acceptance of emerging codes, such as Kriol, as well as how support for these varieties might help increase vitality in traditional languages. Understanding how language programs work, for whom and in which circumstances will enable development of language programs that are sensitive to local contexts and in doing so, are more effective. Short bio Brandon is a PhD Student at Charles Darwin University exploring how language revitalisation works and how to increase language vitality of Indigenous languages. Brandon taught English as a second language for ten years in various places around the world. In 2014, he graduated with a Master of Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham, focusing on endangered language vitality. In 2017, he moved to Kununurra, Western Australia to work at Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Language and Culture Centre. At Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring, Brandon facilitated the Miriwoong Language Nest Program, a program that teaches the Miriwoong language to school children at early childhood education centres and primary schools in Kununurra. Working with the Miriwoong community inspired him pursue his PhD in Indigenous language revitalisation.

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02.01.2022 Jackie Cook and Rosie Sitorus get the party started!

02.01.2022 Heartfelt congratulations to Dr Luisa Miceli who has been awarded a Transdisciplinary Innovation Grant by the Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL). The tile of her project is Monitoring as a driver of differential language change. More details

02.01.2022 Lockdown around the world has made it difficult to attend conferences, seminars and meetings but many cool events are now accessible online. In competition for the coolest, however, is this mammoth Linguistics event organised by Abralin (the Brazilian Linguistic Society) in association with many other linguistic associations around the world. This great series started today with no less than Noam Chomsky on language, politics and human evolution (in English). Other big ticket... items include talks by the likes of Shana Poplack, Bill Labov, Michael Tomasello and Salikoko Mufwene. You can either watch live or check out their YouTube videos after the sessions take place. They are streaming from https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf75fg3VemQx9A_Z6FfoDRg. Carbon-free, paper-free, no conference fee. From the comfort of your home. (You're welcome). See more

02.01.2022 Still keen to register to attend Understanding Language, our teacher professional development day? Six more days to go! Registrations close COB 26 November. The event will take place on Saturday 28 November from 9-3pm, UWA Perth Campus. Register here: https://www.uwa.edu.au/study/events/understanding-language

01.01.2022 For our next Linguistics seminar we will be hosting a team from Bundiyarra Irra Wangga Language Centre, Geraldton, Western Australia. They will discuss their joint work on the translation of a feature film into Badimaya, a language of the Midwest belonging to the area around the town of Mt Magnet. Friday 29 May 1.30-3.00pm... https://uwa.zoom.us/j/98293946384 If you're not UWA-affiliated, you will need to email [email protected] to request a password. Ngalimi bidagu yan.guwa furnace-di From the quiet, into The Furnace: Translating a sleeping language for a feature film Jacqui Cook, James Bednall, Godfrey Simpson, Rosie Sitorus Bundiyarra Irra Wangga Language Centre Friday 29 May 1.30-3pm Via Zoom Abstract This presentation will discuss the process of translating scenes for a feature film The Furnace into Badimaya language. Badimaya is a language of the Midwest, belonging to the area around the town of Mt Magnet. We will discuss the many facets of this project, from the translation and community consultation, to liaising with the production team and the actors, to language advocacy and intellectual rights. Short bio The seminar will be presented jointly by former and current representatives of the Bundiyarra-Irra Wangga Language Centre in Geraldton, Western Australia and people involved in the production of the film. Jacqui Cook is a linguist at Bundiyarra-Irra Wangga. Dr James Bednall is a linguist at Groote Eylandt Language Centre (previously at Bundiyarra-Irra Wangga). Godfrey Simpson is a language specialist at Bundiyarra-Irra Wangga. Rosie Sitorus is a Bundiyarra-Irra Wangga coordinator. Roderick McKay is the director of The Furnace. Looking forward to seeing you there!

01.01.2022 Dr Celeste Rodriguez Louro has been invited to participate in a 'Linguistics in Schools' session organised by Dr Jean Mulder at ALS 2020. Tuesday 15 December 2020, 9:00-11:00AM (Sydney time). Really cool line up of invited talks: https://als.asn.au/Conference/LinguisticsinSchoolsPanel. Here's a sneak peek of Celeste's: Outreach is a thing! Bringing linguistics to WA classrooms... Celeste Rodríguez Louro, The University of Western Australia As difficult as it might be for us to make sense of why this is the case, linguistics still remains a mystery to the general population. This is problematic, especially in a country like Australia, where multiple languages and cultures co-exist. What kinds of misconceptions and prejudices can be dispelled simply by sharing the major insights of our discipline? In this short presentation I describe a novel teacher professional development ‘Understanding Language’ offered by UWA linguists in collaboration with the WA Department of Education. I outline the motivations for this offering, underscoring the ways in which building awareness about linguistic diversity and linguistic myths and ideologies can breathe new life into the school curriculum and potentially change the lives of those whose diversities are not always fully understood. Registration for ALS 2020 online is now open. Early bird closes 15 November. You don't need to present a paper to be allowed to register. Unwaged? It's only $15-20! Register here: https://als.asn.au/Conference/Registration

01.01.2022 Dr Celeste Rodriguez Louro and Glenys Collard reflect on their research into Aboriginal English as used in Nyungar country, Perth, Western Australia in their latest contribution to Language on the Move, edited by Prof. Ingrid Piller. 'When our sociolinguistic project into Aboriginal English in Nyungar country (southwest Western Australia) started in early 2019 little did we know how much our fieldwork would enrich us. The premise was simple: head out into metropolitan Perth, ...set up the cameras and talk to people. Then use those recordings to figure out how Aboriginal English is changing. But there were so many questions. What model of research would be favoured and why? How should we collect our data? Who should we approach? What would people talk about?' (Photo reproduced with permission). Check it out here: https://www.languageonthemove.com/decolonising-sociolingui/